🚨 Some #NPOs look like independent #healthinformation hubs - but operate as strategic arms of the #F&B industry.

They influence science, public messaging, and policy-makers.

We study 5 cases: ILSI Europe, EUFIC, BNF, FEN, and Austria’s FEH.

worldnutritionjournal.org/index.php/wn...

(c) G. Mondy

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

📢 New Blog Post

A recent study shows that three-quarters of the German population have inadequate health literacy.

But what role does school education play — and what needs to change?

📖 Read the full post: www.raffaelheiss.com/post/school-...

#HealthLiteracy #HealthEducation #PublicHealth

📢 Spannender Artikel zum Thema #HealthInfluencer – mit Bezug auf unsere Studien und einem Blick auf die Chancen & Risiken.💡

Auch darin: spannende Interviews mit Influencern & Forschern – ich durfte auch ein paar Gedanken beisteuern.

#Medienkompetenz #Gesundheitskommunikation #PublicHealth

📢 New Publication 📢

Alice Binder et al. analyzed TV series and movies named by Austrian kids and their parents, revealing that unhealthy food dominates, and further that characters' nonverbal evaluation of food is prominently linked to nutritional classifications.

👉🏼 doi.org/10.1016/j.jn...

The NIH canceled my research on vaccine hesitancy www.statnews.com/2025/03/28/v... via @statnews

"Each year in the United States, approximately 6,000 people die from influenza.

More than 7,000 will die from Covid-19 in 2025.

...an American child died from measles for the first time in a decade."

So it begins: "Email directs NIH staff to identify grants related to ‘fighting misinformation’."
Honestly, I was a bit surprised that earlier lists of forbidden terms didn’t (yet) include “misinformation” & “disinformation.”
Turns out, they had a separate plan for dealing with that kind of research.

Wie erkenne ich 🚩🚩🚩 in den Gesundheitstipps von #Influencern? Unsere Checkliste hilft, fragwürdige Inhalte zu entlarven.
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The weaponization of scientific institutions by an anti-science government…

📢Does school education improve #HealthLiteracy? Our data say NO.

We tested 780 Austrian pupils (9–13) using a performance-based HL test.

❌Result: No improvements w/ grade level (fig1).

⚠️Problem: They increasingly rely on unmoderated sources, but aren’t prepared (fig2).

🔗FULL STUDY: rdcu.be/eb548

🚨 New study out!

We coded ~1,000 TikTok & Insta posts on 5 controversial medical tests: 87% hyped benefits, only 15% mentioned harms. 68% had financial ties.
👉 #Overdiagnosis

Study led by @brookenickel.bsky.social & @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social 🌟

Read here👇

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New blog post on #MediationAnalysis (MA), which is widely misunderstood and overused in #CommunicationResearch and #Psychology.

I made mistakes using MA myself, and no one should be blamed. But it's important to discuss flaws, esp. as MA has become so popular.

www.raffaelheiss.com/post/mediation

Thanks to @nature.com for publishing this article on our recent research into the #intimidation of #publichealth researchers working on tobacco, alcohol and ultra-processed foods.

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I recently joined the @ejhc.bsky.social as an associate editor. The #EJHC is a great university-led #nonprofit & #nopaywall project, all articles are rigorously peer-reviewed and published #openaccess free of charge. Looking forward to your #healthcom submissions!💪

Link: ejhc.org